Archive for November, 2007

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Day 1 in New York, 10.20am…

…and myself and Ciara have already drained two peppermint mochas from Starbucks, spent $120 on novelty calendars and t-shirts in Virgin Megastore on Broadway and rammed through all four floors of the biggest Toys ‘R Us there is.
Now in some recommended BT-a-like Sephira make-up place and we haven’t even started the day of planned sightseeing.
This [...]

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Sunday, November 18th, 2007

THE COKE CHRISTMAS AD WAS JUST ON…

AND IT’S NOVEMBER 18TH.
WTF?!?!

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Sitting on the 10 at Donnybrook…

…and there’s a rather obnoxious man in a Liam Gallagher-esque who, the driver says, can’t travel on the bus as he’s “been spoken to 10 times by the Chief Inspector” and who isn’t being let travel as a result. The guy stepped onto the bus regardless and went upstairs.
The driver’s called him down and there’s [...]

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

To everyone with Mariah Carey playing on YouTube…

A nice little link you’ll all love.

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Bell x1’s ‘Flame’ as Gaeilge

Wonderful stuff that I only became aware of having volunteered as Returning Officer for the UCD Cumann Gaelach.

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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Weird Internet Proposals #2: Random Foreign Bloke

You’ll remember the guy who got engaged to a gal he met on YouTube… well, I got this as a spam comment this morning:
For a long time I have tried to find a special way to propose marriage to my girlfriend Mary, whom I know for five years now. I wanted it very special, romantic [...]

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Friday, November 9th, 2007

The fantastic fallacy of the Student Travel Card

It’s not all that often that I use this blog to indulge a particularly intense pet hate of mine; in fact, it’s not all that often that I actually write to this blog, full stop - but this morning, I got a bit of an inkling of job satisfaction of the type that would make [...]

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Friday, November 9th, 2007

Anniversary Present

A great short movie from Doug Karr via Atom Films.

AtomFilms.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

New address

You’ll now find TSS at http://www.gavreilly.com/blog/.
Feeds are here.

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